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It was called the Spanish influenza.
It was just completely a bad rap, by the way, on Spain --
it's called the Spanish influenza because Spain,
not being a belligerent in the war --
Spain got into everybody's newspapers fast. What
happened in Germany, France, the United States, Great
Britain was subjected to censorship.
So,in the world press,the
only nation whose plight, vis-á-vis flu, was widely
publicized was Spain's, so everybody said it's the Spanish flu.
It shouldn't have been called the Spanish flu anymore than
it should have been called the Japanese flu.
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